Six Shooting Stars reached double figures last night as they cruised to a 102-89 win over the Richmond Rhythm (7-14).

Alvin Young had a team-high 19 points, Tutt poured in 18, Lorthridge added 14, Larry Abney added 11 and 11 rebounds and Damien Owens and Will Cunningham each scored 10 for the Stars (6-12), who have won two straight.

Galen Robinson netted 20 to lead all scorers while Stacey Harris, Kareem Reid, Darius Cook and former Temple standout Mark Karcher each tallied 11 for the losers.

"I think as long as everyone plays and scores we're happy," said Alvin Young, who scored 11 of his 19 points in the second half. "We're not playing our best basketball though, because we can get better on the defensive end."

The Stars defense wasn't bad despite Young's feelings.

The Rhythm's Antwain Smith had eight points in the first quarter and Karcher had seven. Smith finished with eight and Karcher only scored three more points.

"It seems like we've played them 25 times," joked Young. "A team like this is a team we have to beat. You can't go in there thinking I'm tired of playing these guys.

Last night marked the Shooting Stars 10th meeting with the Rhythm and the Stars went ahead 6-4 in the series.

"We know what their going to run and we know their personel," said Tutt. "They played tough and came back, but the difference was we gave a second and third effort.

Another reason why the Stars know the Rhythms plays so well is the recent addition of former Rhythm player, Kermit Holmes, who made his first appearance last night, scoring eight points and grabbing three rebounds.

"Kermit was a big addtion for us because he gave us some inside stuff on them," Tutt said.

The score was tied at 49-49 at the half, after the Rhythm made a 6-0 run to end the second quarter.

Tutt came out on fire in the second half hitting two 3-pointers and then completing a 3-point play in the mist of a Shooting Stars run which put them ahead 60-51.

Karcher and Reid pulled the Rhythm back into the game with a run of their own.

The Stars, who trailed 66-65 at one point in third, eventually came out with a 77-71 lead at the end of three periods.

The fourth quarter all belonged to the Stars, with Cunningham, Holmes, Rocca and Lorthridge all got into the flow of the offense.

"We got points from everybody," said Tutt. "If we can start to spread the scoring out more like this I think we can turn the season."

"Everybody did their job," said Lorthridge. "It looks like we're starting to gel. Hopefully we can keep this streak going."

The Shooting Stars have a two game winning streak going while the Rhythm's losing skid went to two games.